I presented a session on Web Design as a career at Fairfield High School's Career Day last week. Below is the information and links from my PowerPoint presentation. I also attched my PowerPoint so that you can download and watch it again.

I really enjoyed the day and I hope you did too! If you have any quesitons or comments please e-mail me at:

tonya@essdack.org

Thanks very much to Bentley Richert and Denise Gerhart for making the roundtable LIVE podcast discussion at MACE happen. With their technical media expertise, the session went off without a hitch!

Thanks very much to Bentley Richert and Denise Gerhart for making the roundtable LIVE podcast discussion at MACE happen.

Maro Torres gave me many things to think about and also affirmed many of the ways that I teach. This session was on planning and preparing. When I teach clay animation or digital storytelling I tell the kids that the planning is the most important part. I tell teachers that the process is the most important part. The product is the celebration of the plan!! Below are my notes from his session.

Another great session by Wesley Fryer. Wes spent an hour this morning sharing good FREE web-based tools to use in your classroom. My quick notes below:

"Using Google Tools for Educational Research and Collaboration"
http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com

Google Notebooks – FREE tool that helps you save and collect information from the web.
• Sign up for a FREE google account
• Start a Free Google notebook
• Add links, photos, and other information by clicking on “note this” in a Google Search or Right clicking on an image or text highlighted on a page.
• Share your information or invite collaborators by publishing your notebook

The information in your Google Notebook will be available to you from any computer connected to the Internet. No more need for Flash Drives or disks to bring files and information back and forth from home or from the classroom to the library, etc.

Other Tools for your Classroom
http://labs.google.com
Go to Google Labs to see new Google Applications that are in Beta.

Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader
RSS Feed Agregator. Allows users to subscribe to content on the web.

Yodas – Find a Mentor!
Marco talked about this in his keynote and Wes highly recommends that we all find mentors to mentor us and that we also mentor others.

Infinite Thinking Machine
http://www.infinitethinking.org
Wes recommends you subscribe to this Blog
Subscribe to speedofcreativity.org – Wes’s Blog

Blogger is Google’s blogging tool. FREE , no software needed,
Has options to control access to allow for safe blogging within a ‘walled garden”

Google Earth – FREE version

I just listened to Wes Fryer, author of the inspiring blog "Moving at the Speed of Creativity " talk about safe blogging. He has links to ideas, tools, and examples that he shared on his wiki. He recorded himself speaking and will post on his blog as a podcast.